Breathing Quotes - Page 12

• She thinks how much more space a being occupies in life than it does in death; how much illusion of size is contained in gestures and movements, in breathing. Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

  Michael Cunningham

  Thinking, Space, Doe

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.165, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• We are fighters and survivors. We are here. We are alive and breathing, living and loving, birthing and caring, working and earning. The sky is above us. The earth is below us. We can never be poor. ~ NanaAnna

  Sister Souljah

  Caring, Sky, Survivor

  Sister Souljah (2014). “A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• The Angeles air was quiet, and for a while I laid still, listening to the sound of Maxon breathing.

  Kiera Cass

  Air, Listening, Sound

  Kiera Cass (2013). “The Elite (The Selection, Book 2)”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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• As long as he was breathing, God's greatest task for him was not yet finished. His highest purpose in life was still unfulfilled. ... God still had plans for him.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Long, Tasks, Purpose

  Karen Kingsbury (2013). “The Chance”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• While the idea of taking you right now, against the wall, is enough to make me lose control, I want you to know that I’m serious. You’re not a hook up. You’re not a friend with benefits. You’re more than that to me.” I closed my eyes, breathing heavily. “Well, that was…really sort of perfect.” “I’m really sort of perfect … Everyone else knows that. You’re just a little slow on the uptake.

  J. Lynn

  Wall, Eye, Ideas

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• Hunt seemed similarly indifferent to the show, his head inclined toward hers, his gaze locked on her face. Though his breathing remained soft and disciplined, it seemed to her that its rhythm had changed ever so slightly. Annabelle moistened her dry lips. “You …you mustn’t stare at me like that.” Soft as the murmur was, he caught it. “With you here, nothing else is worth looking at.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dry, Faces, Lips

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• Will you get off me!" "But I'm giving you CPR-" "I will die before kissing you, Hollywood." Z tried to sit up, his breathing heavy. "Don't even think about it.

  J.R. Ward

  Kissing, Thinking, Cpr

  J. R. Ward (2013). “Lover at Last: Number 11 in series”, p.136, Hachette UK

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• When you love someone, that love has no limit, no measure, because you know in your deepest being that when that love demands sacrifice, you will give it without question. You will not look for reasons, for justification - the act of giving, of sacrificing, is a natural compulsion, like breathing, and it will, in the end, surprise you because you did it without second thoughts.

  F. Sionil José

  Sacrifice, Giving, When You Love Someone

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• As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Believe, Soul

  Thomas Brooks (1866). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.95

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• Breathing is the first act of life, and the last.

  Joseph Pilates

  Lasts, Firsts

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly.

  Andrew Weil

  Advice, Would Be, Limits

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• Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...

  Thomas Harris

  Half, Faust, Mephistopheles

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• My mother teaches high school English, and she's an artist and a poet and a sculptor, she's published twelve poetry books. I grew up in a household in Venezuela with living, breathing art installations that were the way that she used to express herself, a highly creative environment where ideas were celebrated, where artistic expression was celebrated. Seeing her as somebody who was always able to have a creative output - if she felt sad, she wrote a poem, if she felt happy, she made a sculpture - I think for me, there was an early interest in finding outlets for my passions.

  Jason Silva

  Mother, Art, Book

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• So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that to most people, eating flesh or dairy and using animal products such as leather, wool, and silk, is as normal as breathing air or drinking water. A person who consumes dairy or uses animal products is not necessarily or usually what a recent and unpopular American president labelled an "evil doer.

  Gary L. Francione

  Drinking, Animal, Air

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• it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it in the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forth between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles

  Frank O'Hara

  New York, Believe, Light

  Frank O'Hara (1965). “Love Poems (tentative Title)”

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• You're scaring me," Jack's voice finally cut through, and I opened my eyes, barely able to see him. "okay, good, yes, breathe. Breathing helps one stay alive,I've found.What on earth is so bad about a stupid school saying no?" "My life"-I gasped-"is over.It's over. Everything." He frowned dubiously. "Who would want to go to a place called Georgetown, anyhow? Ridiculous. Now,I could understand your devastation if it had a distinguished name like, say, Jacktown, but as it is,you're overreacting. Why do you want to go to more school? I went once for a few hours and nearly lost my mind.

  Kiersten White

  Stupid, School, Eye

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• Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next.

  David Abram

  Offering, Drawing, Meditation

  David Abram (2010). “Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology”, p.61, Vintage

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• From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why? This singing she heard that had nothing to do with her ears. The rose of the world was breathing out smell. It followed her through all her waking moments and caressed her in her sleep.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Song, Sleep, Smell

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.15, University of Illinois Press

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• You leave the phone on beside you as you fall asleep. I sit in my bed and listen to your breathing, until I know you are safe, until I know you no longer need me for the night.

  David Levithan

  Fall, Night, Phones

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• At the door, Audrey called, "Are you coming?" "No, just breathing hard, love." He glanced at her and was rewarded by an outraged glare, followed by, "Oh, my God!

  Ilona Andrews

  Doors, Hard Love, Glare

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Fate's Edge”, p.116, NYLA

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• …I noticed you don’t have any self-defense training…” “…I can handle myself just fine.” She stared at me for a long, uncomfortable moment. Finally, “In the very short time I’ve known you, you have been chased, shot, robbed, stabbed, drugged, and attacked by magic.” “I’m still breathing, aren’t I?

  Devon Monk

  Self, Long, Magic

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• Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution.

  Anne Lamott

  Sweet, Destiny, Practice

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• We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.

  Helene Cixous

  Preventing

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• Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Long, Honest

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.208, Penguin

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• I look up, and stop breathing. Eyes glitter in the darkness. Dark shapes sit in the car, more numerous than we are. The factionless.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Dark, Car

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